attending – a performance installation at Everson Museum of Art Syracuse 4-8pm Thurs Sept 1st addresses the aesthetics of attentiveness that both support the institutional place of art and might be practiced by art museum visitors.

The Idleness Labouritory challenges modern ideas of labor and idleness to make propositions for an aesthetic ethos of co-creative experience. The Lab develops performative projects, practices and experiences that exceed narrow constructions of idleness as unproductive and labor as productive, so as to reveal lucid, creative and critically enquiring modes of generative activity. The Idleness Labouritory plays with performative ways of questioning, exploring and attributing value in contemporary creative arts practices. Often with the contribution of collaborating participants, Lab activities perform propositional relationships to exchanges of value and potential relations amongst communities of practice, economies, material conditions and ecosystems. The Lab research seeks to generate examples of practices that posit the kind of re-orientations necessary to engage with current challenges facing living systems, including human society.